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Im not making an assumption pops. I claim regardless what Base your opinion is founded on, that base is not objectively correct, since the topic in itself has not yet an objective agreed upon foundation. So unless you have access to new unpublished empirical statistic, meta studies or whatever which is clear evidence that your opinion is right it is still subjective
and as correct and wrong at the same time as kongs opinion, who argues that porn is the reason for less rape

I explained to you that it does not matter what you base your opinion off. Your opinion in itself is what cant be backed up by statistical evidence. That is the problem.

yeah but your assuming evidence based on the physical world is the only evidence. that in on of itself is a fallacy and you have to now defend your position of claiming that not only that physical evidence is correct, but also that the claim said evidence is backing up is also true.

il await your response in some other thread at some point in the future if i dont just outright ignore what you post

You’re still making assumptions as to the types of evidences I am utilizing. How do you know they aren’t empirical or statistical?

I am not making assumptions as of what you are using. I told you that the studies regarding this topic have not found a consens, and as such whatever statistic you think validates your belief is disproven by another which claims otherwise. And vice versa.

This topic is highly controversial discussed and studies are done by a broad variety of institues, ranging from religious institutes like churches, over to psychologists, socio economical institutes and much more. Statistical evidence is not just a study which confirms what you think, since that is almost always somehow present, statistical evidence points unambigously to one conclusion over the course of varying studies from various instituts.

Im not making assumption regarding WHAT you use. Im claiming that whatever you use is not an accurate foundation for your extremely generalized claim.

I’m suggesting you can’t hide behind there being no consensus. Consensus isn’t a form of evidence when in comes to science. We look at the stronger evidence.

Consensus is nothing we hide behind but what we build our advanced world upon. Not only scientifically but economically, political, socially. Without consensus we dont have norms. Without norms decisions will be based upon personal preferences, causing chaos due to there not being a consensus to guide as all. Best example is international trade and national law.

Stronger evidence is a very broad term, similar to your very brod generalization of porn being the main cause of rape and abuse world wide.

There simply is NO strong evidence for such a global claim PoPs, it simply does not exist. And "in my mind" is not a valid approach either way.